Who Started the Fire

Who Started the Fire?

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A Web-based Research Pr= oject

Created for 9^th Grade English I<= /o:p>

Will Rogers = High School

Mrs. Piper, Mrs. Mears, Mrs. Harris, Mr. Pillsto= rm

Adapted from a 2002 WebQ= uest

Originally created by Julie Haines

INTRODUCTION

We didn’t start = the fire

It was always burning,

Since the world’s been turning.

We didn’t start the fire

Well, we didn’t light it,

But we tried to fight it.

--Billy Joel

The above stanza is from the= song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” by Billy Joel. What in the world is he talking about? Great Question! By examining the events in this so= ng, as well as subsequent world events, you and your classmates will discover what Billy Joel meant by “fire” and try to answer just who started it anyway??!

THE TASK

Your group’s task in t= his assignment is to research an era of world history and create a multi-media presentation (i.e PowerPoint, video/movie, web newspaper, etc.) to be prese= nted to the class as an analysis of the impact your researched era had on the world. As a final follow-up activity, you will independently print and answer, in paragraph form, a ser= ies of critical thinking questions.<= /u>

THE PROCESS

First, you’ll be assigned to a team of 3 students. Your team will be given a yea= r of world history to research.
Within your team, you will assume one of the following roles:

Cultural Reporter—Your job is to research and analyze those items within y= our year that apply to culture. T= his would include sports, entertainment, literature or any other topic that is = not politically-oriented.

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Political Reporter—Your job is to research and analyze those items within y= our year that apply to politics and government. This would include leaders of coun= tries, wars, political events or any other topic that is politically-oriented.

Scientific Reporter—Your job is to research and a= nalyze those items within your years that apply to the scientific or medical field.

Additional Duties: Each of you needs= to incorporate an onlin= e map that identifies and highlights the countries/reg= ions where your researched event takes place or researched person resides.

Fire Trackers—All members of the group will act as Fire Trackers. Each of you will analyze the facts= your group has gathered about your historical era and determine what makes them significant, especially to our lives today. You will share your analysis when = you answer a series of critical thinking questions at the end of the project.

Each team reporter should choose at least 3 significant events or people th= at impacted the world during the team’s research year and create a section for each one in your team’s multi-media presentation (9 total entries are required per team).
Additionally, your media project should include a credits page at the end of your me= dia presentation. On this pa= ge, credit the researcher for his/her segment and include an int= ernet citation.

PROJECT TIMELINE:

Once you&#= 8217;ve picked a role to play, you will begin your research. You will be given _____________ re= search days and _____________ project construction days. Presentations will begin ______________________________. Each team will draw a number for presentation order. Your team must be ready to go when= your number is called or there will be a 15 point deduction on your final project grade.

PROJECT CHECKLIST

HISTORICAL ERAS--Use these people, places, and events as starting points for your research. However, you are not limited to the people and events listed.&n= bsp; Feel free to explore any other subject you wish. Just make sure to check with me to= make sure it is appropriate for the research assignment.

1949

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red= China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

1950<= /b>

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monro= e

1951<= /b>

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ra= y, Panmunjom, Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye

1952 =

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s New Queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayanna

1953<= /b>

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nas= ser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc

1954<= /b>

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscan= ini, Dacron, Dien Bin Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock

1955<= /b>

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning tram, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presle= y, Disneyland

1956<= /b>

Bardot, = Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, T= rouble in the Suez=

1957<= /b>

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, = Chou En-Lai, Bridge over the River Kwai

1958<= /b>

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homici= de, children of Thalidomide

1959<= /b>

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space = monkey, mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel

1960<= /b>

U-2, Sygman Rhee, Payola, Ke= nnedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

1961<= /b>

Hemingway, Eichmann, Strange= r in a Strange Land, Dylan, Be= rlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

1962<= /b>

Lawrence= of Arabia, British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, = John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

1963<= /b>

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, JFK bl= own away, Michael De Bakay, March on Washington, MLK Dream Speech, Beatlemania, Rolling Stones, The Bell Jar, Cat’s Cradle, Valium, T.E. Starzl

1965<= /b>

Selma-Alabama, Vietnam, Malc= olm X, I Spy, Alex Haley, Big Bang Theory, Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, Winston Churchi= ll, Watts-LA, Dr. Zhivago

1966<= /b>

Famine in India, Medicare, Star Trek, Psy= cho, Birth Control, In Cold Blood

1967<= /b>

Che Guevara, Nuclear Disarma= ment, Gaza Strip and West Bank, Thurgood Marshall, Billie Jean King, Pulsars, Lang= ston Hughes, PBS

1968<= /b>

Apollo 8, Tet Offensive, Warsaw Pact, MLK, Jr.= Slain, Supersonic airliner, Amniocentesis

1969<= /b>

Gay Rights Movement, Chappaq= uiddick, Neil Armstrong, Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sesame Street, Easy Rider, The Godfather, Scanning Electron Microscope

1970<= /b>

Biafra, Peru Earthquake, Kent State Massacre, Monday Night Football, Maya Angelou, Floppy disk, Bar Codes, LCD, Lithium

1971<= /b>

Democratic Republic of C= ongo, Idi Amin, School Busing, 26^th Amendment, Jim Morrison, Clockwork= Orange, Mariner IX, Ho= logram

1972<= /b>

Mao Zedong, Munich Olym= pics, Christmas Bombing, Watergate, Dall= as Cowboys, Home Box Office, MS. Magazine, M*A*S*H, Pong, Prozac

1973<= /b>

European Economic Community, Vietnam War ends, Nob= el Peace Prize, Roe vs. Wade, American Graffiti, Skylab

1974<= /b>

Patricia Hearst, Presidential Impeachment, Presidentia= l Pardon, Patti Smith, Punk, Mikhail Baryshnikov

1975<= /b>

Khmer Rouge, Saturday Night Live, Jaws, VCR, VHS, Beta=

1976<= /b>

Palestinian Hijackers, Death Penalty Ruling, National Bi-centennial, Rocky, Haley’s Roots, Viking on Mars, Homo Erectus in = Kenya

1977<= /b>

Star Wars, Elvis Presley, Saturday Night Fever, Draft Evaders Pardons, Woman Episcopal Priest, Nuclear-Proliferation Pact, Amnesty International

1978<= /b>

Panama Canal, Aldo Moro, Pope Paul VI, John Paul I and= John Paul II, Anwar Sadat and Jimmy Carter-Camp David, Guyana, Bakke Cas, Sony W= alkman, Hotel California, Double Eagle II, Norman Rockwell, = test tube babies

1979

Fall of Phnom, Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomei= ni, Margaret Thatcher, SALT II, Sandinistas, Teheran hostages, Kent State shoot= ing reparations, Three Mile Island, Rap= per’s Delight, Apocalypse Now, Gossamer Albatross, John Wayne, Sverdlovsk anthrax accident

1980

Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran-Iraq War, Abscam, Ronald Rea= gan, John Lennon, CNN, Mark Morris Dance Group, Solar Challenger, Voyager I, rabies vaccine, Jesse Owens, Alfred Hitchcock

1981

Pope Paul II attempted assassination, End of Iran-Host= age Crisis, Golan Heights annexation, Anwar el-Sadat, attempted presidential assassination, Sandra Day O’Connor, Air Controllers Strike, MTv, Pacm= an Mania!, Salman Rushdie, Aspartame, Joe Lewis, Bill Haley

1982

Falkland Wars, PLO Attack, Princess Grace, Lebanese Christian Phalangists, Leonid Brezhnev, John Hinkley, Jr., Equal Rights failed ratification, Thriller, John Belushi, Broadway&#= 8217;s Cats, Schindler’s List, The Color Purple, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

1983<= /p>
Roman Catholic Code, Ferdina= nd Marcos, South Korean airline shot down, Beirut Terrorists explosion, Grenad= a, Sally K. Ride, Klaus Barbie, compact discs, Karen Carpenter, anorexia nervo= sa, crack cocaine, El Nino~

1984<= /p>
Syria, Soviet withdrawal fro= m Summer Olympics, Amritsar, Bhopal-India, Indira Gandhi, Geraldine Ferraro, Bob Gel= dof and Band Aid, The Killing Fields, Macintosh computers, subatomic particles, Truman Capote

1985<= /p>
Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost,= Shiite Muslim Airline hostages, Nuclear disarmament, Madonna, Desktop Publishing, Ozone hole, “New” Coke, Klaus von Klitzing, Marc Chagall

1986<= /p>
Corazon Aquino, Chernobyl, S= pace Challenger Explosion, abortion rights, Nicaraguan Contras, Oprah Winfrey, Nintendo, super conductivity, Hepatitis B vaccine, Halley’s Comet

1987

Persian Gulf, Klaus Barbie, Oliver North, Jr., Iran-Contra Operations, Alysheba, Beloved, AZT Drug, James Baldwin, = Andy Warhol

1988 =

US and Canada Free Trade Agr= eement, Benazir Bhutto, Lockerbie Pan-Am 747, LA Lakers, “morning after” pill, Greenhouse Effect, Mississippi Burning

1989<= /p>
The Satanic Verses, Tiananmen Square, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ceausescu executed, Manuel Noriega, Exxon Valdez, San Francisco earthquake, virtual reality, world wide web, Salvador Dali, Lucille Ball, Sugar Ray Robinson, Voyager 2-Neptune

1990<= /p>
Yugoslav Communists, dissolu= tion of USSR, Cold War ends, Kuwait, Persian Gulf War, Lech Walesa, flag burning ba= n, NC-17 rating, Milli-Vanilli, The Simpsons, Hubble Space telescope, Norplant= , Jim Henson, Sammy Davis, Jr.

1991<= /p>
Apartheid, Nuclear Nonprolif= eration Treaty, Warsaw PACT, Boris Yeltsin, Lithuania-Estonia-Lafvia, Commonwealth = of Independent States, Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, Theodore Seuss Geisel, = New York Giants, Steffi Graf, Grunge Movement, Paul Reubens, Didanosine, Cholera epidemic, Frank Capra, Miles Davis

1992<= /p>
Yugoslav Federation, US/Chin= a trade sanctions, START treaty, Somalia, NAFTA, Rodney King, Soon-Yi Previn, The Tonight Show= , The Crying Game, Earth Summit, Alex Haley, Isaac Asimov

1993<= /p>
Maastricht Treaty, military = ban on homosexuality, Branch Davidian Cult, World Trade Center= bombing, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Brady Bill, Michael Jackson child molesta= tion case, River Phoenix, Mosaic, Bovine somatotropin, human cells cloned, Frank Zappa, Arthur Ashe, Cesar Chavez

1994<= /p>
Sarajevo, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nelson Mandela, Northern Ireland cease fire, Richard Nixon, Chechn= ya, Tonya Harding, Aldrich Ames, OJ Simpson, Clinton sex scandal, baseball stri= ke, Cab Calloway, Kurt Cobain, John Candy, Woodstock ’94, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction

1995<= /p>
Mexican Economic aid, Mir, A= um Shinrikyo Cult, Bosnia and Croatia, Yitzhak Rabin, West Bank, Selena Quintani= lla, Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing, Million Man March, Mickey Mantel, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jerry Garcia, Howard Cosell

1996

Tupac Shakir, Welfare Reform Bill, Spiro Agnew, Carl S= agan, Mad Cow Disease, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kurdish Enclave, South Africa, Kabul, Zairian refugee camps, US budget crisis, Unabomber, Helium-3, late-term abortion ban, ValuJet, line-item veto bill, Ella Fitzgerald, Angela’s Ashes

1997<= /b>

Genetically Engineered Sheep, Middle East Peace Negotiations, Nazi’s “loot”, Pol Pot, Neti and Ditto, Holocaust Reparations, Mother Theresa, O.J. Simpson, Heaven’s Gate Cu= lt, Oklahoma City Bombing, New York Trade Center Bombing, Ellen Degeneres, J.K.= Rowlings

1998

Kosovo, euro, UN Arms Inspectors in Iraq, Monica Lewin= sky, Unabomber, Starr Report, Terry Nichols, Matthew Sheppard, American History = X, Athena Moon Voyage

1999<= /b>

Y2K, Pokeman’, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Slobodan Milosevic, John William King, Kiebold and Harris, JFK, Jr. and Car= olyn Bessette Kennedy, Teletubbies, Melissa and Chernobyl computer viruses

2000<= /b>

North and South Korea Peace Accord, Vicente Fox Quesad= a, Mad Cow Disease, Elian Gonzalez, hanging chads, RU-186

2001<= /b>

9/11, Laurent Kabila, Osama bin Laden, Ariel Sharon, T= imothy McVeigh, Taliban Regime, Yasir Arafat, Anthrax, Stem Cell Research, Artific= ial Heart

2002<= /b>

Hugo Chavez, East Timor, Chechen Rebels, Kenneth Lay, = Cardinal Bernard Law, Serna and Venus Williams, Eminem, Gangs of New York, Toumai, American Idol, Johnny Unitas

2003<= /b>

Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Space Shuttle Columbia, Arno= ld Schwarzenegger, John A Muhammad, Ruben Stoddard, Pirates of the Caribbean, Music Download Crackdown, Outkast, DaVinci Code, Microraptor gui, Planet Methuselah, Johnny Cast

2004<= /b>

Haiti, NATO, Darfur, Falluja, 12/26 Tsunami, Abu Ghrai= b, Gay Marriage, Martha Stewart, Google, The Passion of Christ, SuperBowl XXXVIII half-time scandal, Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie, Elements 113 and 115, Michael Melvil, Homo floresiensis

2005<= /b>

Sea Dwelling Crocodile, Intelligent Design, Arthur Mil= ler, Sudan, Pope John Paul II, London Bombing, Irish Republic Army, Brokeback Mountain, Hollaback Girl, Sadam Hussein Trial, Gaza Strip Evacuation, Terry Schiavo Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Day O’Connor, Brangelina

2006<= /b>

Muhammad Cartoons, Secretarian Violence, Mumbai-India, Hezbollah, Hussein’s Execution, Patriot Act, President Bush’s historical veto, Gardasil, Crocodile Hunter

Concl= usion

Now you know a little more about the last half of the twentieth century and a little bit about the beginning of the twenty-first century and can appreciate the variety of this era in history. What legacy will the twenty-first century hold? Will the fires burn out of control? Will your name show up some day in suc= h a compilation?

Ev= aluation

You will receive a gro= up grade (100 points), based on research, effort, and presentations. Y= ou will also receive an individual grade (100 points) based on your completion of= the concluding questions. Below are the standards that will be used for your group grade.

Beginning

Developing

Accomplished

Exemplary

Score

Behavior and Effort

1
The group did not work together nor did they behave appropriately. Th= ey created a distraction to learning and accomplished little in class.

2
The group worked most of the time but additional effort was necessary. The group did need reprimanded and reminded to stay on task.

3
The group worked hard and used the majority of the time provided wisely.&nb= sp; Only general reminders were necessary.

4
The group worked diligently on the assignment and used all time wisely.&nbs= p; No reprimands or reminders were necessary.

Content

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2
Content is inadequate. Group members did not accomplish the research task= s.

4
Additional content is necessary. The group shows evidence of preliminary research but needs more.

6
Content is sufficient to the task. The group did not try to go above the required, however.

8
Content is exemplary. The group thoroughly researched and went above and beyond the call of duty.

Creativity

1
This project displays little creativity.

2
There is some creativity displayed in this project, but additional effort is required.

3
There is adequate creativity in this project.

4
There is much evidence of creativity in this project.

Presentation

1
Presentation was severely lacking in interest, organization, and content.

2
There is some evidence of interest, organization, and content in the presentation.

3
The presentation shows adequate effort at interest, organization, and conte= nt.

4
The presentation shows mastery of interest, organization, and content.

Overall Impression

2
Groups' effort and performance only shows the beginnings of effective student w= ork.

4
Groups' effort and performance shows movement toward effective student work.

6
Groups' effort and performance shows accomplishment of effective student work.<= /span>

8
Groups' effort and performance exemplifies effective student work.

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